By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— “We will approve the meeting on condition there are no Jews.” This is what you are likely to hear these days if you request a meeting with any senior Palestinian Authority official in the West Bank. Palestinian journalists who try to arrange meetings or interviews with Palestinian Authority representatives for…
DetailsBy DAVID RUBIN— Anyone who travels through Israel sees the many brand new SUV vehicles of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Its main activity in Israel is providing assistance to the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria, the so called West Bank. These residents are commonly known as “the Palestinian refugees”. In…
DetailsBy REZA KAHLILI, WND— Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rohani, attributed his victory in the June 15 voting to the 12th Imam, Mahdi, a statement with ominous overtones in the Islamic regime’s quest for nuclear weapons. The Shiites believe that at the end of times, the 12th Imam, a 9th-century prophet, will reappear with Jesus…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— Israel Air Force jets attacked targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday morning in response to five rockets fired into Israel overnight. They were the first rockets fired from Gaza to hit Israel in 40 days. The Iron Dome anti-missile defense system intercepted two rockets headed for the coastal city of Ashkelon,…
DetailsBy YOSSI ALONI, ISRAEL TODAY— At a time when the Israeli government is struggling to get ultra-Orthodox Jews into the army, a record number of Israeli Arabs are volunteering for national service. Despite calls from leaders in the Arab community to shun national service, 3,000 young Israeli Arabs answered the call this year, a 76…
DetailsBy MOSHE YAALON, WASHINGTON INSTITUTE— Israeli Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Yaalon believes that Israel’s recent period of relative peace could be shattered by conflict and instability spilling over from its neighbors. Speaking to a standing-room-only audience at The Washington Institute on June 14, he provided a sweeping assessment of the risks confronting Israel today, from…
DetailsBy BETH KANOPSIC, inCONTEXT— On Monday, a high-ranking Hamas official called on Hezbollah to withdraw from Syria and focus on fighting Israel. Reports of a rift surfaced after a round of reconciliation talks between Hamas’s leadership in Lebanon and local Hezbollah politicians. Hamas’s reaction to the violence in Syria shows the deepening divide in the…
DetailsBy SASHA BOGURSKY and JEREMY KAPLAN, FOXNEWS— A carved pillar discovered near Bethlehem may be linked to the Biblical King of Kings, David himself, or perhaps validate the scope of wise Solomon’s majestic kingdom. If they ever get around to digging it up, that is. Israeli tour guide Binyamin Tropper, who thought he was the…
Details“Early Zionist Settlement: First Aliyah” looks at the first wave of Zionist immigrants, who began arriving in 1882. The young idealists who made up this immigration, or aliyah, wanted to pave the way for a national rebirth. As Zeev Dubnow, a member of Bilu, the very first group of Zionist immigrants, wrote: “The ultimate aim…
DetailsThink on this: “The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’…
DetailsBy MAAYANA MISKIN, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— The Oslo Accords, not Israeli “settlements,” are the real drain on Israel’s budget, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beytenu) said Monday night, speaking from the Knesset podium. Feiglin poked fun at Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid’s “where’s the money” election slogan, and at Lapid’s suggestion that Israeli communities in Judea…
Details1. THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR This is a sectarian conflict largely between the two main Islamic factions of Sunni and Shiite. The Iran, Assad, and Hizbullah coalition are the Shiite arm of the battle. The Sunni portion of the fighting force (the opposition/rebels) consists largely of local Sunnis, supported by Muslims of Saudi Arabia,…
Details“I firmly believe God has blessed the Jew. If this nation wants her fields to remain white with grain, her scientific achievements to remain notable, and her freedom to remain intact, America must continue to stand with Israel.”-–Jerry Falwell
By MIRIAM SHAVIV, TIMES OF ISRAEL— The father of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, kept many secrets. Gavin Welby never told his son that he had an estranged older sister, or a first wife. He never told him his real birthdate, or the name under which he was born. And, it has emerged,…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— One day after Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett declared that the notion of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had reached a “dead end”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a response to the controversial statement on Monday, saying, “Foreign policy is shaped by the prime minister, and my view is…
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